The Hanover Book Group is reading Rader-Day’s 2020 The Lucky One for its March 22 meeting. Go to www.mjcpl.org/events to register for the Author Talk and/or The Lucky One discussion.
Signed books by Rader-Day are available for purchase at Village Lights Bookstore, 110 E Main St, Madison at a 10 % discount. Call 812/265-1800 for details about signed bookplate and signed copies of The Day I Died, Under a Dark Sky, and The Lucky One. 
Rader-Day uses Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin as the settings for her fiction. She is the Edgar Award-nominated and Anthony and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour. Her short fiction has been previously published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, TimeOut Chicago, Crab Orchard Review, Freight Stories, and in the anthologies Dia de los Muertos, Unloaded 2, and Murder-a-Go-Go’s. Bestselling author Jodi Picoult chose her story as the grand prize winner of Good Housekeeping’s first fiction contest in 2010.
Originally from central Indiana, she studied journalism at Ball State University in Muncie (IN), and studied creative writing at Roosevelt University (IL). She is an adjunct faculty member for the MA/MFA creative writing program at Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies. A resident of Chicago for twenty years, she is active in the area’s crime writing community and the current national president of Sisters in Crime, and a member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. Rader-Day is the co-chair of Murder and Mayhem in Chicago, a one-day mystery readers’ conference.
The program is sponsored in part by the Indiana Humanities’ Novel Conversations Speakers Program, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.